Innumeracy is alive and well and living in the USA
Front page WSJ story on a new game show: "Deal or No Deal" works like this: Twenty-six models each hold a briefcase that...
Cult of the Bear, Part 2
Cult of the Bear, Part 2 The charts are aligned for a hard time for U.S. stocks. thestreet.com, Jan 9, 2006 In part...
The Billionaire Pessimists Club
Pardon the delay: I was planning on putting this up Tuesday, but I didn’t want to make this look like log rolling (after Tim...
Margin Debt Hits 5-Year High
A belated entry: "Even last year’s lackluster stock-market gains encouraged investors to borrow money to trade stocks,...
P/E Expansion and Contraction
Last week, I showed a 50 year chart of the S&P500, focusing on the P/E over that time period. Today’s chart covers the same...
How Bullish is the Investing Public?
We previously mentioned how Bullish the Pros were; What about the investing public — how Bullish are they? At least when measurd by...
Death of Volatility
Light posting this weekend, but I came across two fascinating VIX graphs that demanded discussion. The VIX, for those of you who may not...
P/E vs S&P 500 (50 Years)
As promised, today brings us to the 4th in our series of charts: P/E vs S&P500 click for larger chart courtesy of Mike Panzner, Rabo...
100 Year Dow Jones Industrials Chart
Have a look at this 100 year (actually, 105-Year) chart. I colored each “Market” appropriately — Green for Bull, and...
How Blind Are We to Our Own Shortcomings?
"To know that I do not know what I know, and that I do not know what I do not know…that is true knowledge. ...